My Proton Pack Rebuild

Peet · January 11, 2021, 1:57pm

Hello everyone,

I’m Peter or Peet. Since I was a Child I wanted a GB Proton Pack. I think you all know that need :-p

A good friend know a guy which collect some replicas and this man had an “old” selfmade Proton Pack

which one he brought from Great Britain.

I was very happy and euphoric as he said that he will sell it to me for… Okay I don’t want to tell you, because it was way too much in my eyes after I had that Pack in my hands. But Ok.

Here is the picture my friend send me:

At frist glance, a very nice Pack (for me). I saw that the colors from the tubing are not correct, but so what, I’ll will replace them and I’ll have a very nice Pack But…

As soon as the Pack was at home I saw the big bunch of work… 97% of all parts are only hotglued. 85% of the parts are not well 3d printed, screws incl.! Most of the parts fall apart at the moment when I touched them… The decals are printed on paper. The whole bodypart is warped or bended to the middle (see next picture). BUT I will take care of that.

Within 25min all parts are removed:

A bunch of parts I’ve ordered already here in the shop, the decals from here I can print at work on vinyl. Next part to recreate some parts with help from my dad:

In the next weeks I’ll fill all holes then sanding and repaint. I’ll update here after every update on the Pack.

And that’s the christmas present from beautiful life partner… I love her so much

Greetings, Peet and stay healthy!

Peet · January 12, 2021, 7:43am

Here’s a update January 12, 2021:

Aluminium V-Hook finished
Detail pictures of the current Neutrona Wand

I think I’ll sell this wand because it looks not good for me and I want to use my modded Spenglers Neutrona Wand for this pack.

kingpin · January 12, 2021, 9:46am

That is one of the strangest ways I’ve seen the Proton Gun achieved… Does anything actually fix the opening side in place, or is it just held in by a friction grip?

Peet · January 12, 2021, 11:24am

The whole plate is only plugged in and can easily be removed, but has enough grip so that it does not fall out

kingpin · January 12, 2021, 12:17pm

Yikes.

Yeah, I think you’d be better off replacing the whole assembly.

Peet · January 12, 2021, 2:25pm

Yep… I’ll do my best

Peet · January 15, 2021, 7:25am

Here some pictures from the back.

Unfortunately, I currently have not much time to take care of the pack.

The aluminium plate is from “Prop Fiction Movie Costumes”…

On Google I only found http://www.prop-fiction.de/ but this site is down.

The Alice Pack Frame looks good for me. Hopefully one thing haha.

Furthermore, I noticed that the shell was riveted to the aluminum plate … That means I have to drill it out and hope that nothing breaks … I will report.

kingpin · January 15, 2021, 12:42pm

Are there no bolts or screws on the sides of the Pack which are holding the shell onto the motherboard? There should be two on the curved underside of the Synchronous Generator/Cyclotron, one around the Power Cell, and one around the Gun Mount.

Peet · January 15, 2021, 1:00pm

I’ll check it out over the weekend and then give feedback.

Peet · January 18, 2021, 7:14am

So … no screws around the pack, just more rivets.

So I have no choice, I’ve to carefully drill this out.

I hope to get there this week and will report…

tobycj · January 18, 2021, 10:34am

Yikes! I don’t get why you’d ever rivet the shell to the brackets?! Very strange!

Peet · January 18, 2021, 11:40am

I don’t get it too… In my eyes, the builder wasn’t really into it.

It’s a challenge and I accepted it

l3w1sb159 · January 18, 2021, 11:48am

That shell looks warped to hell…

Is it a vacformed one? And if so what did they make it out of… a tea towel?

Hopefully it can be unwarped

Peet · January 18, 2021, 12:24pm

I saw it in the last pictures too. I just don’t know if it really looks like that or if my camera warped it that way.

That it bends towards the middle is a fact, you can see that in the first pictures here in the thread.

I (still) don’t know enough to be able to say whether it is a well-known shell or some self-made shell.

kingpin · January 18, 2021, 6:21pm

Riveted shut? That’s nuts… How are you expected to undertake maintenance on the electronics?

Peet · January 18, 2021, 8:21pm

I didn’t do this. I’ll drill that out and I’ll use bolts.

Like I’m said, I think the builder of this pack was not really into pack building.

Darth_Egon · January 18, 2021, 8:31pm

This all can be fixed. Your going to have to fill the rivet holes and redrill the pack to mount it on the frame brackets. Step by step and you will get it done!!! Your off to a great start!

Peet · January 18, 2021, 10:38pm

It’s a project now but at the and I’ll have a nice and beautiful pack

kingpin · January 19, 2021, 12:01am

I knew. The question was directed at the seller.

Peet · January 20, 2021, 12:47pm

Little Update:

-One of two orders from the gbfans shop are on the way.

-I don’t had the time to drill out the rivets.

-Female V-Hook for the Spengler’s neutrona wand in progress.

-Wire loom delivered yesterday.

-Green tubing I found on Amazon was delivered today and I love it! It looks very very similar like the tubing from the Movie Spengler’s Wand; nice dark green and 6mm diameter: